Taco Bell Programming (2010)

This is how the Plan 9 fork 9front does a lot of its major plumbing, rc scripts. Many tools are just scripts that use rc, awk, sed, bc and other common tools originating on Unix. e.g. the ipconfig tool is an rc script. This creates a zero dependency environment as well as shakes out bugs and shortcomings in foundational software which need improvement.

Ah, this must be the precursor to Chipotle Vibe Coding: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1rsbxn9/stop_sp...

And bash is fast! Reminds me of the 230x faster than hadoop blog:

https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...